1850 in Belgium

← 1849 1848 1847 1850 in Belgium → 1851 1852 1853
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	Other events of 1850 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1850 in Belgium.

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

• Sint-Lodewijkscollege established in Lokeren
• 14 February – Treaty of commerce and navigation with the Russian Empire signed in Berlin.^[1]
• 5 May – National Bank of Belgium founded
• 27 May - Provincial elections
• 11 June – Partial legislative elections
• 25 July – Scourmont Priory established
• 4 August – Mediation by the King of the Belgians leads to the restoration of diplomatic relations between Spain and the United Kingdom.^[2]
• 25 September – King Leopold lays the first stone of the Congress Column in Brussels
• 31 October – Treaty of commerce and navigation with Bolivia signed in Brussels^[3]

Periodicals

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles^[4]
• Almanach royal officiel^[5]
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (Brussels, Muquardt)^[6]
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 21 (Brussels, E. Devroye).^[7]
• Revue de Bruxelles ceases publication

Books

• Félix Victor Goethals, Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du Royaume de Belgique, vol. 3.^[8]
• Adolphe Joanne, Voyage en Orient (Ixelles lez Bruxelles, Delevingne & Callewaert)^[9]
• Edouard Mary, Epîtres en vers sur la Belgique.
• Jean-Joseph Thonissen, Le Socialisme et ses promesses (2 volumes)
• Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Recherches sur la faune littorale de Belgique: Les vers cestoïdes ou acotyles (Brussels, Hayez)^[10]
• Edward Weller, Nouveau dictionnaire anglais-français et français-anglais (Brussels)

Paintings

• Jan August Hendrik Leys, Divine Service in Holland

• 5 January – Theodoor Verstraete, artist (died 1907)
• 30 January – Emma De Vigne, painter (died 1898)
• 20 February – Eugène Joors, painter (died 1910)
• 20 March – Marietta Hannon Rousseau, mycologist (died 1926)
• 14 April – Fredegand Cogels, politician (died 1932)
• 9 May – Fernande de Mertens, painter (died 1924)
• 8 October – Léon Herbo, painter (died 1907)
• 4 November – Jules Bilmeyer, architect (died 1920)
• 17 November – Hippolyte d'Ursel, politician and historian (died 1937)
• 29 December – Frans Van Leemputten, painter (died 1914)

• 29 April – Charles de Brouckère (born 1757), politician
• 5 September – Paul-François Huart-Chapel (born 1770), industrialist and politician
• 11 October – Queen Louise (born 1812)

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